Miles today: 189
Miles total: 5534
Got up at 3:30am Eastern to catch a 4am Uber to CLT for a 6am flight. 2 hour layover at DFW; flight to Fresno was delayed 1/2 hour to fix a broken seatbelt. Arrived in Fresno around 11am Pacific time. Proceeded to take the shortest Uber ride I have ever taken because I was too hot and tired to walk from the terminal to the storage unit (just under 1 mile, approximately a 3 minute ride). The driver was strangely cheery and chatted me up for those 3 minutes though.
Got the bike out of storage, reconnected the battery, repacked a few things, changed into riding gear, and signed out of the unit. Just after I left Airport Mini-Storage I stopped to fill up but, because California gas stations have vapor return nozzles, I once again proceeded to spray myself with gas while trying to fiddle with the return hose so the pump would work. So far I’m only about 50/50 filling the bike in California without making a mess.
Headed south from Fresno on a really uninteresting, flat, straight road, CA-41. And it was ridiculously hot. For two hours it ranged between 105F and 108F. At least at Shandon CA-41 suddenly became a really nice road with no traffic, lots of sweepers and small hills, good visibility in the corners, and excellent pavement. But it was still really hot.
Just past Atascadero I could feel the temperature start to drop, and it steadily dropped about a degree every 30 seconds for the next 20 minutes. When I reached Morrow Bay on the Pacific it was 67F.
Ouch! Was worried about the heat out there! Looks and sounds much better as you head north. Beautiful shots - I need to get our map out.
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